Meanwhile, a Seattle radio show on Thursday morning promised a new bike for the mayor.

The "Kent and Alan Show" on KPLZ, STAR 101.5 announced the new bike for the mayor.

"No child or mayor who wants a bike should be without one, that has been our mission for two decades," Kent Phillips was quoted in a statement as saying.

The show has donated more than $250,000 worth of bikes to kids for 20 years. It wants to make a deal with the mayor: If someone returns the stolen bike, he turns over the new one to a kid who needs one.

The mayor rode his bicycle around Seattle to campaign events in 2009 and touted the slogan "Mike bikes." He still commutes by bike often from his North Seattle home.

McGinn and his wife, Peggy Lynch, have two sons, Jack and Cian, and a daughter, Miyo.

The mayor, a former Sierra Club leader, has been a strong advocate of replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a surface street option that he says will be a more environmentally-friendly choice for the aging waterfront structure. McGinn also has been a strong advocate of Seattle's Walk, Bike Ride program, which in part prioritizes right-of-way space.

But some of the plans McGinn supports have been met with resistance from neighbors, including the road diet of the Northeast 125th Street hill in Lake City.